Data in Focus (DIF) - EU Postal Survey 2007 of Eurostat. - August 5, 2008
After a break of three years, Eurostat has started again collecting data on postal services in 2005. The National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) are Eurostat's partners in the data collection and the reference years are 2004 and 2006. This Data in Focus (DIF) is the third publication based on some selected variables of the most recent data set (EU Postal Survey 2007 of Eurostat), collected in autumn 2007. The data collection covered the companies operating under the Universal Service obligation (Universal Service Providers, USP) as well as other service providers. "Universal service" refers here to the set of general interest demands to which services such as the mail should be subject throughout the Community. The aim is to ensure that all users have access to quality services at an affordable price. For the current publication, only data on the USP have been used. Activities other than postal services (for instance financial services) of the USP are excluded. The USPs are here defined as public or private entities providing a universal service or parts thereof within a Member State whether required by license, authorisations or other legal instruments. The postal services are undergoing a market liberalisation, which is progressing at different phases in different Member States. This should be taken into consideration while making comparisons between countries, as in the process some of the services are privatised in some of the countries and not in others.
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"Postal Economics in Developing Countries - Posts, Infrastructure of the XXIst Century" edited by Joëlle Toledano and José Ansón (UPU) - July 23, 2008
New Research Helps Pinpoint Mail’s True Environmental Impact - New Pitney Bowes White Paper - July 3, 2008
Pitney Bowes Press Release
In a marketplace increasingly focused
on environmental impact, the mailing industry is developing innovative new ways
of doing business while lessening its environmental footprint. As the mailing
industry adapts to environmentally friendly practices, its ability to pinpoint high
carbon-emitting areas in the life-cycle of mail will help advance its environmental
stewardship and sustainability goals. An assessment of the environmental impact
of mail is an important first step in identifying those areas.
In a newly-published White Paper, mailstream technology leader Pitney
Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) offers a first attempt to quantify and address the
environmental impact of mail. Titled “The Environmental Impact of Mail: A
Baseline,” the new White Paper is available on the Pitney Bowes website at
www.pb.com/mailimpact.
“Pitney Bowes, and the overall mailing industry, measures its business
success on a financial, social and environmental scale to ensure sustainability,”
said Paul Robbertz, vice president of environmental health and safety at Pitney
Bowes. “This new research will be instrumental in helping companies and the
overall mailing industry understand mail’s true environmental impact.”
Key findings on mail’s environmental impact include the following:
• Mail is a small component of most consumers’ carbon footprint. Running a
single refrigerator for a year, for example, is roughly equivalent to the
creation and delivery of 5,000 letters.
• Mail is made from an increasingly renewable resource: trees. Sustainable
forests and their related products are increasing in developed countries,
despite growth in population and economic activity.
• The mailing industry has adopted many initiatives to reduce mail’s carbon
footprint, but must foster stronger partnerships and establish robust sets of
data to further understand and expand the environmental sustainability of
mail.
“Although mail’s environmental impact is low in comparison with other
everyday human activities, Pitney Bowes is committed to supporting the mailing
industry in moving to even more sustainable practices,” said Robbertz. “We
believe that this new research will be the foundation of future studies, initiatives
and collaboration that lessen the carbon footprint of the mailing industry.”
White Paper: “The Environmental Impact of Mail: A Baseline”
Postal Services Operated In Competition - Statistical Information 1Q 2008 by ANACOM - July 2, 2008
DPWN Issues New Sustainability Report - June 30, 2008
Deutsche Post has released its new Sustainability Report titled "Changing Ways." It focuses on current and planned projects in the core areas of the environment, employees and social responsibility. "We want to assume a leading position in all areas that are critical to the future of our sector. This also includes sustainability," CEO Frank Appel says in explaining Deutsche Post World Net's philosophy. Report
Envelope Manufacturer's Association 2008 Economic Jobs Study - June 25, 2008
The EMA Foundation for Paper-BasedCommunications’ Institute for Postal Studies has just released the 2008 Economic Jobs Study, which is an update to their 2003 study. The study reveals that there are approximately 8.4 million jobs and over $1 trillion in revenue associated with the mailing industry.
The study breaks down the jobs by state and congressional district. Jobs associated with the mailing industry are contained in two categories:
1) those that are associated with the creation of mail or the handling, distribution, delivery or receipt of mail and parcels; and
2) jobs associated with firms whose sales depend on mail and parcel carriers to deliver products that they sell or that use mail advertising to sell their products or services.
This study analyzes data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Occupation Employment Statistics program on employment by occupation and industry, the U.S. Census Bureau in its 2002 Economic Census, and the Direct Marketing Association’s study of jobs associated with direct mail marketing.
The key findings of the study are:
- This study identified 8,332,563 jobs associated with the core mailing industry. This is lower than the 9 million jobs published in 2003. This change is due in part to the fact that some segments of the mailing industry have become more efficient in recent years. Also, the change is due to a more rigorous definition of the mailing industry than was employed in 2003.
- Firms associated with the mailing industry generate nearly $1.2 trillion in revenue. Direct marketing advertisements delivered through the mail generate over $750 billion in sales of goods and services.
- The Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that for every job at the Postal Service, and in the courier and messenger, printing, and direct mail advertising industries (the core of the industry as described above), there is a multiplier that creates at least 1 additional job in the economy adding up to a job count that would be greater than 9 million.
“We are excited to release this report because it shows how important the mailing industry is to the US economy. With Do Not Mail legislation being introduced on the state level we hope this study will educate those legislators on the importance our industry is to their state,” stated Cheryl Chapman of International Paper and chairman of the EMA Foundation’s Institute for Postal Studies.”
The study also available on the EMA Foundation’s website at www.emafoundation.org or you can contact the Foundation office at 703-739-2200 or Tonya Muse, the executive director at
twmuse@envelope.org.
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ComReg: Republic of Ireland, Quality Of Postal Service Monitor - 2008 Report - June 16, 2008
Royal Mail: 2007-08 Quality Of Service Report - May 30, 2008
[Press Release.]Figures released today by Royal Mail confirm that, as previously announced, industrial action last year damaged services for postal customers. However the 2007-08 Quality of Service report also shows that the large majority of mail, including all bulk business mail, was performing at target or above target levels as the financial year ended in March 2008.
Ninian Wilson, Royal Mail's Operations Director, said, "The immediate objective for everyone working in the business is to deliver further improvements in Quality of Service to customers and restore the record levels seen before last year's dispute."
92.2 percent of First Class letters were delivered the working day after posting in the final Quarter of the year, compared to 79.3 percent in the third Quarter and 78.4 percent in the second Quarter, when industrial action first disrupted services. The dispute meant the full year First Class performance fell below target at 85.2 percent.
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Correios De Portugal - Network of Postal Establishments as at the End of 2007 - May 12, 2008
This report refers to the postal establishments of the universal postal service concessionaire (CTT - Correios de Portugal S.A.) as well as to private establishments and those of other entities where postal services conceded to CTT are provided.
[ANACOM website.]
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